Re: [Summary-Talk] Paths by Source and Fan In/Out reports

[Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/24/04 2:31 PM LynuxWorks Webmaster (webmaster@lnxw.com) wrote:

>I've noticed that the Paths by Source report doesn't seem to report 
>completely on pages with a query string. I get information on how
>many page views were followed by the "leave" destination (no page),
>with a percentage like 40%, 27%, 15%.  However, no further
>information is provided on any of the other pages that make up the
>remaining percentages.

This report only shows destinations that had three or more occurrences in 
the log files. Because of that the percentages will almost never add up 
to 100%, and you will occasionally see source pages that don't have any 
destinations listed, even though destinations did occur.

>We really like the Fan In/Out report.  It would be great if we had any 
>easy way to see actual numbers in addition to the percentages shown on 
>the report.

In Summary 2.5.x the total number of requests for the page is displayed 
near the top of the report, and you can use that to interpret the 
percentages which are displayed for the individual sources and 
destinations. We don't display numbers on the individual items because 
there is no way to reliably measure that. The percentages are derived by 
examining a filtered sub-set of all visits. There isn't any way to know 
what the absolute numbers really are.

Jason

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